As Rome Burned Team Cyprus Danced: Team Cyprus: Alcohol + Bad Judgement + Poor Timing

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As Rome Burned, Team Cyprus Danced
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by Michael Arrington on October 10, 2008
Yes, the meme is just getting started it seems. 1938Media does his own take of the Team Cyprus video, set to the tune of AC/DC’s HighWay To Hell:

金融崩壊直後にシリコンバレーエリートのキプロス祭りｗ
アリエネーＪＫ
ＢＧＭはジャーニーよりAC/DCが良いね
このＫＹ感は凄い
ニコ動っぽいｗ

A group of twenty or so tech elite were partying 1999-style in Cyprusthis last week, and posted a lip sync video of the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believing” a couple of days ago. Among the group were Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike Hudack of Blip.tv, Dave Morin and Aaron Sittig of Facebook, Sam Lessin of Drop.io and Jessica Vascellaro, the Wall Street Journal’s Silicon Valley beat reporter.

Team Cyprus: Alcohol + Bad Judgement + Poor Timing

The video was released just as Silicon Valley really began falling apart and the UnParty began in earnest - eBay’s 10% layoffs, Google’s stock nosedive, Yahoo’s self destruction, VC’s bunkering down, etc. And more than a few people thought the ostentatious partying was a little, ahem, tasteless in light of the meltdown back home.

Now that video has been taken private, which is what it should have been marked as in the first place. But it’s too late - the video has spread to YouTube and other sites, and won’t be disappearing again. As I said yesterday, fair or not the video video will always be associated with the end of Web 2.0.